Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centrist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PARM ) and the left-wing Party of the Cardenist Front for National Reconstruction ( PFCRN ) and Popular Socialist Party ( PPS ) between them commanded 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 2 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 3 | They were ‘ volunteers ’ who between them had vast experience of how ‘ Maranyl ’ was manufactured on our five extrusion systems at Billingham . |
| 4 | He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up . |
| 5 | In 1900 in the Ruhr town of Hamborn , three enterprises between them employed 10,000 people ; by 1913 these same enterprises employed 30,000 . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that the nine London newspapers in existence in 1704 between them published 44,000 copies per week . |
| 7 | It was conducted , too , in French since France was the country to which most of them owed intellectual allegiance . |
| 8 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 9 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 10 | Not all of them enjoyed full sovereignty nor were very united or coherent in structure . |
| 11 | At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination . |
| 12 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 13 | Almost one in five of them said male nurses were seen as ‘ weak ’ . |
| 14 | A couple of them sported bruised faces , and one was limping . |
| 15 | Only three of them secured enough votes to be assured of their seats . |
| 16 | None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour . |
| 17 | What they each gained separately was a greater individual confidence and capacity for self-determination as women , and each of them fed that confidence back into a variety of struggles to change the position of women , and in the case of the majority of women in that particular group , to a struggle for some kind of socialism . |
| 18 | Most of them became good Americans . |
| 19 | Some of them received high command in the mid-fifteenth century , and some introduced their own characteristics to the fighting of war . |
| 20 | They none of them had much money , but the Bouveries had a house , for which they did not have to pay rent . |
| 21 | Neither of them had much appetite but they finished the wine . |
| 22 | Most of them had cartilaginous vertebrae , like modern toads . |
| 23 | And all of them had one thing in mind . |
| 24 | Many of them had blue lights on top . |
| 25 | Three of them had serious face and hand burns and were transferred to the burns unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary . |
| 26 | And all of them had various music jobs before meeting up . |
| 27 | There was , however , one issue on which both of them had similar views : President Sadat 's peace-seeking journey to Jerusalem in November 1977 and its sequel at Camp David the following year . |
| 28 | Most of them had similar extensions . |
| 29 | Some of them had crucial help from the Israeli secret service , Mossad ) Those army commanders who did not immediately his were not so lucky . |
| 30 | Twenty-five trunk lines went into Chicago and most of them had attendant freight and passenger depots . |